Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...edited by Dan H. Laurence. The first of four volumes takes Shaw from adolescence to the early years of fame and glamour in London. A tireless and brilliant correspondent who bridled neither mind nor emotions, he pursued subjects ranging from love to Fabianism to the evils of drink...
...Mississippi, as the cheerful saying goes, "the drys have their law, the wets have their whisky and the state gets its taxes." Though they have the only statewide prohibition statute in the U.S., Mississippians have no trouble getting a drink in 59 of 82 counties. Bootleggers support the 58-year-old law because they can make a greater profit on liquor when it is illegal. Drinkers also generally approve of the dichotomy, although whisky smuggled from neighboring states costs more than anywhere else in the Southeast...
...atomic power, seems to be the imaginative answer. But for the East, at least, there is not yet a need for such expensive measures. The water is here. New York, with its Hudson River, is perhaps the modern-day embodiment of "water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink." Billions of gallons flow daily to the sea alongside the city, none of which can be used because of pollution. There is no law compelling industry to reveal how much or what kinds of wastes they dump into our streams. There is nothing in America to compare with the progressive...
...used to pick up on the street all the time. He would waltz into the house with strangers by the half dozen. He would tell people that we were very wealthy and important and owned a chain of banks and then say, 'Come on over and have a drink any time...
Business is generally brisk. In the 1964 Crosby, Arnold Palmer dumped three balls in the drink, took nine strokes to get down on the par-three, 217-yd. 17th. In 1959, Gene Littler needed only a par five on the 535-yd. 18th to tie Art Wall for the title; he hooked his second shot into the water, wound up with a double-bogey seven. Of course, there have been days when the 18th played easier; a San Franciscan named Mat Palacio once hit a drive in the general direction of China and muttered, "Only God can save that...